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Re: Speeding up GC

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:58:58 -0700
Subject: Re: Speeding up GC
References: <j47klg8pfy.fsf@informatik.hu-berlin.de> <20020603180553.A13829@redhat.com> <200206040920.g549KZP26811@quatramaran.ens.fr>

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> Isn't that a bit expensive ? getting through a SEGV and a signal-handler
> is not especially fast on most OSes.

The idea is that in all likelyhood, the objects _won't_ be changed.
You don't use this all the time for every page.


r~

References:
- Speeding up GC
  - From: Martin v. Löwis
- Re: Speeding up GC
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: Speeding up GC
  - From: Marc Espie

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